Scratch a liberal, find a fascist.
A liberal is a fascist in a cardigan.
I know. You’ve heard me say that a thousand times, but it’s true, so I’m going to keep saying it. Sorry if that bothers you.
I’ve always known this about liberals! I’ve always known that their free speech fetish was nothing but a gigantic fraud. Only now, when their Lie Machine is finally starting to be dismantled by the Internet, are they showing their true colors.
In other words, as long as they are running the show, everything is fine, we support free speech, bla bla. But as soon as there is a major threat to their power, they go authoritarian in a heartbeat. That’s a fascist impulse with a little monkeying with the definition.
Which is the definition is how fascism operates. Fascism occurs as Trotsky notes when there is a major threat to the capitalist system from the Left.
Fascism is simply a last ditch authoritarian effort by the capitalists to save their power, privilege, and money. They’d prefer not to go fas…
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